Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Full review to follow. Nick Storring put this night together to exchange some culture with Beirut-based Sehnaoui, who was passing through town on his first Canadian tour. The night saw a range of sounds, from the extended techniques of Storring's own improv-cello duo The Knot to the John Cage standup routine of Andrew Zukerman's Fleshtone Aura. Sehnaoui's set, meanwhile, could best be described as "solo percussion for acoustic guitar", with the rods stuck in the strings creating some bell-like overtones when struck.

*I'm not sure if the longer piece that was played here had a title or not. Please leave a comment if you know!

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Founded as a blog about one curmudgeon's love affair with the em dash, Mechanical Forest Sound has grown to become a community-based archive of local musical culture. Assuming that "independent music" isn't just boys with guitars and "culture" isn't just some sort of pageant, MFS is an investigation of a wide range of artists, reflecting on concerts as shared experiences, acts of citizenship and a chance to get down — fuzzy photographs and clear-sounding original live recordings a specialty.

Current manifestations of this project include Track Could Bend, a monthly concert series featuring "improvised music and weird rock offshoots", presented in a casual environment.

At one point I wrote full-on concert reviews, and for longer I thought I would catch up and write about shows in the past. But these days, because of, y'know, life, do not expect much in the way of full show reviews — but live recordings with blurbs will be posted as quickly after the fact as is feasible.

All MP3's on this blog are audience recordings shared as a reminder of the excitement of seeing live music. If you are an artist who doesn't want their music shared in this way, please contact me and I shall remove it forthwith.

The Music Gallery presents Fusing: Premieres VII ["six new interdisciplinary premieres fusing new music with dance, circus, literary, visual, theatrical and media arts by emerging and established artists from near and far" (feat. Thin Edge New Music Collective) / 918 Bathurst 2018-06-22 (Friday) [FB event]